The management of risk is essential to the human experience. For families who may be targets for attempted fraud, extortion or, in extreme cases, personal security risks such as kidnapping, mitigation begins with consciousness of the risks and having the right underlying protections in place.

The management of risk is essential to the human experience. We do it every day, to greater and lesser degrees; planning travel, investing in businesses, crossing the road. Most of our essential life decisions involve at least a degree of risk and while these can be managed, they can rarely be eliminated entirely.

For families who may be targets for attempted fraud, extortion or, in extreme cases, personal security risks such as kidnapping, mitigation begins with consciousness of the risks and having the right underlying protections in place.

The nature of the Internet means online insults traded between two family business next gens, Aga Bakrie and Nat Rothschild, could resurface in Google searches and due diligence for years to come, even after the media storm surrounding it has died down, say family business experts.

The nature of the Internet means online insults traded between two family business next gens, Aga Bakrie and Nat Rothschild, could resurface in Google searches and due diligence for years to come, even after the media storm surrounding it has died down, say family business experts.

This week the Indonesian family behind Bakrie Group formally separated itself from its ill-fated natural resources group Bumi (now renamed Asia Resource Minerals) it co-founded in 2010 with Nat Rothschild, of the English branch of the famous banking dynasty.